Sur les lagunes, Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été - Claire Galloway & Stuart Malina Market Square Concerts

3. Sur les lagunes
Hector Berlioz
Les Nuits d'été
Claire Galloway, Soprano & Maestro Stuart Malina, Pianist
Market Square Concert Series
Market Square Presbyterian Church
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
April 28th, 2024
Upon the lagoons
Original French Text by Théophile Gautier
English translation by Claire Galloway
My beautiful friend is dead;
I shall cry forever;
Beneath the tomb she carries
My soul and all my loves.
To the heavens, without waiting for me,
She shall return;
The angel who brings her there
Did not want to bring me.
How my fate is bitter!
Ah, without love, to go out to the sea!
The white creature
Is abed in the coffin.
How, in all of nature,
Everything seems to me to be in mourning!
The forgotten dove
Cries and dreams of the absent one.
My soul cries and feels
That she is unparalleled.
How my fate is bitter!
Ah, without love, to go out to the sea!
Upon me the immense night
Stretches itself out like a shroud.
I sing my romance
That only the heavens listens to.
Ah! How she was beautiful,
And how I loved her!
I will never love
A woman such as her.
How my fate is bitter!
Ah, without love, to go out to the sea!
Concert Sponsors: Hilary M. Simpson
Season Sponsor: The Carole DeSoto Foundation
About the performers:
Stuart Malina - www.stuartmali...
Claire Galloway - www.clairegall...
Jonathan Hays - www.jonathanhay...
Recorded by Peter Sirotin
Filmed by Carina Seltzer, Mick Corman, Maya Nelson and Blaise Falkenstein
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